Guy-anchor.



P. P. KOBEET. GUY ANCHOR. APPLICATION FILED SGML-30, 1912.

w Patented Spt. 29, 1914.

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK P. KOBERT, 0F FAIRHAVE'N, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BARNES &

KOBERT MANUFACTURING GOMIPANY OF NEW HAVEN,.

RATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CONNECTICUT, A CORPO- GUY-ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept, 29, 1 914 Application filed September 30, 1912. Serial No. 723,029.

the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class having a plurality of fluke members one or more of which may be used according to the retaining power desired; a further object being to provide an improved anchor of the class specified which may be used not only as apole' anchor, but as an anchor for smoke stacks and in various other relations in which anchors of this class are required.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the accom-- panying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my invention are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a View showing one use of my improved anchor ;-Fig. 2 a bottom planview thereof or of the head thereof and showing four of the fluke members employed;Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 2,

but showing three of the fluke membersemployed ;Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing only two of said fluke members Fig. 5 a View similar to Fig. 4, but showing the method of employing but one of said fluke members ;Fi g. 6 a section on the line 66 of Fig. l, and; Fig. 7 a perspective view of one of the fluke members detached.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown in Fig. 1 a telegraph or similar p'ole a provided with my improved guy anchor Z). A j

The guy anchor 1) comprises an anchor bar or rod 0 having an anchor head cl at one end and a ring, eye or loop 0 at the other end with which is connected a rope or cable 6 which is connected with the pole a in the usual manner.

The head (i may consist of a singlefluke member d as shown in Fig.5, or oftwo of said fluke members assho wn in Fig. 4, or of three of said fluke members as shown 1n F 1g. 3, or of four of said fluke members as shown in Fig. 2.

'The, fluke members (Z consist of plates stamped from sheet metal and 'approXi-. mately triangular in form and. having heads d" at one corner, said heads being preferably semi circular in form, and the heads (Z are provided with central apertures d, and

one end of the bar 0 is screw threaded as shown at 0 and provided with two nuts f and f and a washer T The fluke members (1? are also provided centrally with other apertures d? similar to the apertures d and said fluke members are also preferably provided adjacent tothe opposite side edges andon one side thereof with radial ribs (1 and corresponding radial grooves al in the opposite side face thereof, this construction being designed to give strength to said fluke members which are stamped from sheet metal, as hereinbefore described. When it is desired to use butone of the fluke memhers the threadedend c of the bar a is passed through the central aperture in said fluke member, as shown in Fig.- 5, and the nuts 5 and f and washer f manipulated so as to securely bind said fluke member in position, the washer f being on the top surface off the head thereof. When it is desired to use ,two of the fluke members d as shown in Fig. 4, they are placed together with the heads thereof overlapping and the threaded end of the bar 0 passed there through, and the nutsf and f and washer f used, as shown in Fig. 2 and as above de scribed, and the fluke members project in opposite directions. In the same manner three of said fiuke'members may be used, as

shown in Fig. 3, or four as shown in Fig. 4,

and in the construction shown,'the fluke members are of such shape that four of them form an anchor head which'is circular in form, three of them an anchor head equivalent to three fourths of. a circle in form and two of them an anchor head equivalent to one half of a circle in form. When the separate fluke members are placed together, as shownin Figs. 2 and 3, the

' side flanges 03 formed by the ribs d and d,

overlap, and said ribs prevent any lateral movement of said fluke members when they are securely bound together. The fluke members d or the heads thereof are alsopreferably slightly curved, as shown in Fig.

3, so as to make the anchor head or the separate parts thereof concave in crossfsection, but this feature is notabsolutely necessary and may or may not be employed.

It will be understood that the fluke mem bers (l may be made of any desired radial dimensions and the size or capacity of the anchor head may thus be increased or decreased, asmay be desired, and it will also be understood that the exact form of the said fluke members, as hereinshown and described, is not essential the only object in this connection being to provide an anchor of the class specified the head of which consists of a number of parts 1, 2, 3 or more of which may be combined in the manner shown and described so as to provide {an anchor of greater or less efliciency', as may be desired.

Having fully described my invention,

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an anchor, an anchor bar provided with a head, consisting of a plurality of fluke members, said fluke members being stamped from sheet metal and being substantially triangular in form and being provided at one corner with semi-circular heads having central apertures through which the anchor bar is passed, and the body portions of said fluke members being provided adjacent to their opposite side edges with radial ribs on the top surface thereof and corresponding radial grooves on the bottom surface thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 27th day of September 1912.

FRANK P. KOBERT.

Witnesses:

S. ANDREWS, G. MULREANY. 

